PT-2001-1982 · Microsoft · Internet Explorer

Published 2001-11-22 · Updated 2021-07-22 · CVE-2001-0807

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.6

Low

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Internet Explorer version 5.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers, such as malicious web pages, to read known text files from a client's hard drive. This is achieved via a SCRIPT tag with a SRC value that points to the text file.

Recommendations For Internet Explorer version 5.0, consider disabling the execution of scripts from external sources to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2001-0807

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

References · 3

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/archive.pl?id=1&mid=189341 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2001-0807 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6688 · Note